Transport for London’s (TfL) Direct Vision Standard (DVS), designed to reduce the impact of HGV blind spots on vulnerable road users, will be enforced in the capital from 1 March [...]
Transport groups across Europe sign call for Brexit deal
Published On: Friday 9 October 2020
A deal on the UK’s future relationship with Europe had still to be struck between London and Brussels at the time of publication, as the pivotal 15 October meeting of [...]
Budding transport managers seeking the Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) required so they can follow their profession now face the news that the country’s major provider of syllabus and examinations [...]
The quality, health, safety and environment manager at Derbyshire’s Middlebrook Transport has criticised government plans to include a ‘hierarchy of road users’ in a revised Highway Code, that could, in [...]
Global logistics provider Kuehne+Nagel has chosen eight gas-powered Volvo tractors to serve contracts with Costa and Whitbread, with the aim of reducing emissions and improving the sustainability of their transport [...]
Scania has stolen Swedish rival Volvo’s crown with the world’s most powerful production truck. Revisions to Scania’s unique flagship V8 engine range see its top offering now rated at 770 [...]
Scania and MAN parent company Traton held its public ‘virtual’ annual general meeting last month, in which new CEO Matthias Gründler announced that the boards of the two European truck [...]
Mercedes’ parent Daimler Truck has unveiled a prototype hydrogen-powered heavy tractor unit. The Mercedez-Benz GenH2 will have similar performance to its diesel-engined equivalent, but run on liquid hydrogen, which will [...]
We report on the series of Commercial Vehicle Days virtual seminars held last month by Continental, focusing on the challenges facing fleets in 2020 and beyond, and the technology it [...]
